Russian People (Winter 03/04) — The Best Way to Learn
What Russia is Like!

Send us a question you want to ask a Russian, and we'll do it for you. Already 24 questions in the list!

Added 31 January, 2004: Your Questions are Answered!
Anna:: "Russian women have too many illusions. Russia was closed and separated from the world for years, so people here considered that somewhere else life is better [...] " read more...		Natalia: Question: "What could I do to look like a native Russian girl?" A: "Russian girls are smart and beautiful." read more...		Tanya: Question: "How to Russian people treat each other" Answer: "Like potential enemies." read more...

Added 20 January, 2004: Your Questions are Answered!
Vita:: "A typical Russian girl is blonde and quite tall. She is modest, also." read more...		Marina: "Russia is a huge country and there are many different people who live here. We used to live with people who look not like us." read more...		Vadim: "The world-dominance is a Nazy philosophy. President of USA is a Nazi himself. He wants dominance in the world and he leads the world towards the global war." read more...

Added 30 November, 2003: Your 11 Questions are Answered!
Nikolay: "I think that most of Russian people are focused on existence and on different levels on it. [...] but the mass conciousness level in Russia may be lower." read more...		Dan: "USA as the superpower will collapse soon, there is no real cultural paradigm which can support the economical and military conquest of the world by USA. " read more...		Dmitri: "The the standard drug against reality - consumation — requires money — something Russians don't have, so they go towards vodka and a mask of indifference. I guess, it happens in other countries as well." read more...

Added 15 November, 2003: Your 11 Questions are Answered!
Var & Ira: "Russian cars are the best. They don't need to be repaired, if they break then it's totally forever..." read more...		Natasha & Yulia: "(Way to a Russian heart) - "Vodka, intelligence and attention. Russian guys lack the two last qualities quite often, especially attention." read more...		Lana: "(What do you do for fun?) "Having sex days and nights long, eating, meeting friends, reading books." read more...

Added 15 October, 2003: Your 10 Questions are Answered!
Rita: "I believe that Russia has always been a country that was dominating, then intimidating, and then as a balancing power to America." read more...		Vladimir: "If Russian person is not feeling good, he will not try to seem feeling good, if he's disgusted, he will show he's disgusted, he will not hide behind a mask." read more...		Vladimir: "Russian girls like American guys. Russian women like wealth, and they also like kind people and need to be respected." read more...

Added 24 September, 2003: Drivers..
Sasha: "If I want to see my friend, I'll go and see him directly. In Sweden they take appoitments 2 weeks in advance.." read more...		Alexey: "I think the best thing to do at Altay is to go rafting..." read more...		Kostya: "A few years ago every so often a taxi driver would be stabbed from the rear seat. It used to be dangerous..." read more...

Added 19 September, 2003: Thoughts about Foreigners...
Vitya: "I want foreigners to come to my country and to see how great it is..." read more...		Maria: "Stalin was a real leader. It is because of him we won the World War." read more...		Serega: "I don't understand foreigners. They always want more than they need." read more...

Added 17 September, 2003: People from Siberia!
Nikolay: "Some people live like sheeps, consuming the reality they impose on themselves..." read more...		Alla & Andrei: "I was enjoying life in the Soviet time, and I enjoy it now..." read more...		Andrei: "Do you know that Krasnoyarsk is the only Siberian city shown on Russian banknotes?" read more...

Added 24 July, 2003: about communism and foreigners...
Konstantin: "Life with communists was easier, and calm, and better, and there was less crime..." read more...		Svetlana: "I think foreigners are more mercantile than Russians. Russians care about money much less..." read more...		Igor: "I can recognize a foreigner directly in crowd" read more...

Added 15 July, 2003: about work, racism, nature, and foreign men..
Natalia, pensioner: "If I see a person who is in need, I will certainly stop and help, even if I'm busy." read more...		Evgeny, a driver: "There are some political parties in Russia that want to unite people with nationalist ideas, because they can't propose anything else." read more...		Elena, a student: "Foreign men are really rude [...] they behave in such a strange, vulgar manner! " read more...

Interviews with three more people are added every week.

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Question #1 (16/7/3): "In general I am interested what Russians think of America and its well, how to say, world-dominating politics. Or do they have enough problems in Russia itself, not to worry too much about that? Is it in other words far away from them?"

Question #2 (1/8/03): "Do you think life in Russia is very weird?"

Question #3 (1/8/03): "How Russian newscasters report news to their viewers, including women?"

Question #4 (5/9/03): "Are Russians okay with people from Finland and Sweden now? Long ago we had many wars..."

Quesiton #5 (5/9/03): "What are prices and taxes like in Russia?"

Question #6 (7/9/03): "I was curious if there was a way to a Russian's heart. I have met this beautiful Russian woman while she is here in the US studying in college. I am a US Citizien and there is very little language problem between us. I just wanted to know if there were some paticulars in which they were very fond of, attracted to, interested in ?"

Question #7 (11/9/03): "What do you do for fun?"

Question #8 (15/09/03): "What are the people in Russia like? What I mean is that what do they eat and how they look at Russia? Another thing is how do they treat each other?"

Question #9 (16/09/03): "What the russia people think about the russian cars, in comparation with japanese cars, or american cars"

Question #10 (10/08/03): "Why Russians can face life only through drinking vodka and hiding behind the mask of indifference?"

Question (15/09/03): "What could I do to look like a native russian girl?"

Question (22/09/03): "Is there a lot of racism in Russia? Do any black people live there?"

Question (24/09/03): "what is the most popular food that you eat?"

Question (30/09/03): "Why are so many russian woman looking to marry a man from the west. Is this because of more money and a better life or is it that russian men do not treat russian women well?"

Question (06/10/03): What do you think about the influence of the english lenguaje in the russian, especialy with the introdution of the occidental music and the internet?

Question (01/10/03): "Are Russians really ruthless, cynical and prone to tragedy?"

Question (3/11/03): "What does the average person earn. How much does an apartment cost to rent. Do you think you will be able to own a home. "

Question (4/11/03): "What are the good and bad things about Russia?"

Question (12/11/03): "Do you think that the US president is doing the right thing."

Question (14/11/03): "Would foreigners living in Russia ever be accepted as real Russians?"

Question (15/11/03): "What can you say about your president Putin?"

Question (17/11/03): "How good is sex with russian women?"

Question (18/11/03): "What is Russia's future? What will Russian life be like in twenty years?"

Question (21/11/03): "If USA opens immigration to Russia would you like to come to US? If yes, why?"